Tiger Moon will be appearing live in our barn on October 1 for a matinee show. It's a bring-your-own lawn chair show.
We first saw Tiger Moon in Kelowna a few years back. They were supporting Washboard Union and we really got into them. We follow @TweetTigerMoon and heard they were doing another Ontario tour and connected with Dan. We had been thinking about trying a house concert at our place and after seeing Gurf Morlix in a guy's backyard near Cambridge this summer we decided to give it a try.
Come on out to the first SpringRush House(Barn) Concert! Bring a lawn chair.
Here: 5353 Mooresville Drive, Mooreville Ontario. (6k north of Lucan, google map)
Tiger Moon website, Bandcamp, YouTube channel
From their latest LP...
They also do some terrific covers, like this one...
Thursday 24 August 2017
Tuesday 19 July 2016
Worked Up Field (Fred Eaglesmith cover)
Stone Willie is now covering Fred Eaglesmith's Worked Up Field. Recorded it live off the floor with one mic and made a video with some images from the Photogrammar Archive.
Talked to Kori about the back track on the original at a show recently. Apparently she just started talking in the studio and that got added. This talking track creates a dissonance that is disturbing - it is very difficult to listen to it. I actually like it, but was too difficult to add that to the cover!
Janette on backing vocal has a bit of a Kori sound to her voice so we really like that touch. There is no harmonica on the original. I had this old Eb harp in the collection that I acquired in an online sale. David set the piano to emulate that old time clunker you find in an old town hall, and takes the song in a fitting direction.
Talked to Kori about the back track on the original at a show recently. Apparently she just started talking in the studio and that got added. This talking track creates a dissonance that is disturbing - it is very difficult to listen to it. I actually like it, but was too difficult to add that to the cover!
Janette on backing vocal has a bit of a Kori sound to her voice so we really like that touch. There is no harmonica on the original. I had this old Eb harp in the collection that I acquired in an online sale. David set the piano to emulate that old time clunker you find in an old town hall, and takes the song in a fitting direction.
Thursday 30 June 2016
Town Hall Fred Eaglesmith Shows
The last two Fred Eaglesmith shows we attended have been at town halls. The Ailsa Craig show was at Ye Olde Town Hall and last Saturday night at the Plympton Town Hall.
Ye Olde show was the full band and rudely disrupted by some pissed up people who failed to shut the fuck up. Man, that pisses me off. Fred urged them to respect all the other people who paid and were there to listen. I was in a position to say something, but that never goes well. Next time (if there is one) it will be different.
The show at Plympton was solo with Tif Ginn and it was fantastic. They both played beautiful acoustic versions of favourites and new songs. The hall is very small and though they had a PA they did not need or use it much. They are playing very well together and we loved it.
I recorded a brief section of the show that includes the comedy of Fred and a new song, Twin City Minne. We got a lift to the show in friend Trucker's RV, that was fun and ended up the brunt of jokes by bith Tif and Fred.
Ye Olde show was the full band and rudely disrupted by some pissed up people who failed to shut the fuck up. Man, that pisses me off. Fred urged them to respect all the other people who paid and were there to listen. I was in a position to say something, but that never goes well. Next time (if there is one) it will be different.
The show at Plympton was solo with Tif Ginn and it was fantastic. They both played beautiful acoustic versions of favourites and new songs. The hall is very small and though they had a PA they did not need or use it much. They are playing very well together and we loved it.
I recorded a brief section of the show that includes the comedy of Fred and a new song, Twin City Minne. We got a lift to the show in friend Trucker's RV, that was fun and ended up the brunt of jokes by bith Tif and Fred.
Stone Willie Plays Slide and Yown
Stone Willie is a new band formed around the songs of Slide and Yown. David Garrison (keyboards), James Handyside (aka Slide, vocal and harp) and Janette Richards (percussion and vocal). We've been having band practice at Harlow New Town Studio, a basement dungeon with a ceiling designed to fit twice as many people in the same building site (Get em out by Friday).
The origin of the name of our little band goes like this: David had a student named Stone Willie. No shit, someone named their baby Stone. It hit us as a much better band name. Thanks to Google we found an even better reason: the Stone Willie embalming experiment. Apparently in late 1880's a town drunk died in jail and no one knew his kin. The mortician decided to experiment with embalming which was new at the time. Seems that he got the solution off a bit and consequently turned the corpse into stone. So, starting a band later in life than most, we think preservation is in order. Play until you're stone. We plan to.
Stone Willie set list:
Found and Followed
Mother Earth Twins
Old Car
Put a String on It
A Patriot so True
Massey Ferguson 165
Travelling Show
To Be Released
Windmills Revisited
Covers:
Father Son (Peter Gabriel)
Worked Up Field (Fred Eaglesmith)
Dark Angel (Blue Rodeo)
Philadelphia (Bruce Springsteen)
The origin of the name of our little band goes like this: David had a student named Stone Willie. No shit, someone named their baby Stone. It hit us as a much better band name. Thanks to Google we found an even better reason: the Stone Willie embalming experiment. Apparently in late 1880's a town drunk died in jail and no one knew his kin. The mortician decided to experiment with embalming which was new at the time. Seems that he got the solution off a bit and consequently turned the corpse into stone. So, starting a band later in life than most, we think preservation is in order. Play until you're stone. We plan to.
Stone Willie set list:
Found and Followed
Mother Earth Twins
Old Car
Put a String on It
A Patriot so True
Massey Ferguson 165
Travelling Show
To Be Released
Windmills Revisited
Covers:
Father Son (Peter Gabriel)
Worked Up Field (Fred Eaglesmith)
Dark Angel (Blue Rodeo)
Philadelphia (Bruce Springsteen)
Wednesday 25 November 2015
Earth Talks
I started on this back on earth day, several months ago. It just occurred to me that the notion of the earth talking relates to the pending climate talks in Paris next week. Added a bridge for that. So far, it's a poem, not getting any musical muse going... ever since the day it started as a rhythmic chant on my daily walk around the farm. Maybe it will come to Slide and Yown some day.
Earth Talks
Pebbles on the beach
Once rocks in a field
They got something to teach
A protest to appeal
Want to be old some day
To be smooth and small
Lying in the sand they say
Not in a road or wall
Rocks, these rocks, are talking to me
Rocks, these rocks, are talking to me
Rocks, these rocks, are talking to me
Rocks these rocks, don't like what they see
Pebbles on the beach
Once rocks in a field
They got something to teach
A protest to appeal
Want to be old some day
To be smooth and small
Lying in the sand they say
Not in a road or wall
Rocks, these rocks, are talking to me
Rocks, these rocks, are talking to me
Rocks, these rocks, are talking to me
Rocks these rocks, don't like what they see
Thursday 12 November 2015
Thanks Neil
When Nic and I first started collaborating we both perceived this wild ride of creativity we had somehow jumped onto. Lyrics started dropping out of the sky for me and I would send them to Nic and he would make a demo. Fucking unreal what was going on for us.
Of course songs get to be your babies... some of them are ugly but you love them, every one. Tom Powers had a couple of interview clips this morning in recognition of Neil Young's birthday. (CBC tribute page) Neil basically said he creates his songs for himself and it's just a coincidence other people like them and he is commercially successful.
Of course songs get to be your babies... some of them are ugly but you love them, every one. Tom Powers had a couple of interview clips this morning in recognition of Neil Young's birthday. (CBC tribute page) Neil basically said he creates his songs for himself and it's just a coincidence other people like them and he is commercially successful.
Wednesday 11 November 2015
War Zero
During the Vietnam war I was a young boy. I would see the news on TV, the Walter Cronkite era, and they would do this statistical report - the body count. This is one of our anti war songs, posted on Remembrance Day.
I wondered if it is fitting to say war is not right when we remember the sacrifice of war. I think so. One of the messages of war should always be that it is wrong to die this way.
I wondered if it is fitting to say war is not right when we remember the sacrifice of war. I think so. One of the messages of war should always be that it is wrong to die this way.
Monday 9 November 2015
Like a Ghost
Inspired by Neil Young's comment at farm aid (at the end of Old Man youTube) about how climate change is moving around showing its face from place to place like a ghost.
Wednesday 14 October 2015
Canadian Protest Voice
Here are three Slide and Yown demos with a Canadian theme. From the Found and Followed album.
Tuesday 13 October 2015
A Patriot So True
Soon to be three years ago Stompin' Tom Connors died. I went his web page at the time for some reflection on his life. He had penned a message to Canada. It was one of those moments you just take deep breath and sigh. This is the song I wrote.
Making this demo took so much out of me; there was an urgency, even though looking back there was no rush. Today, more than ever Canada needs a patriotic message. Hear the call Tom left, like a loon on a lake.
Update: Discovered this lovely tribute to Tom by David Newland. Read it!
Andy Slide, vocal and harmonica. Nic Yown, guitar and vocal.
Making this demo took so much out of me; there was an urgency, even though looking back there was no rush. Today, more than ever Canada needs a patriotic message. Hear the call Tom left, like a loon on a lake.
Update: Discovered this lovely tribute to Tom by David Newland. Read it!
Andy Slide, vocal and harmonica. Nic Yown, guitar and vocal.
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